When James Comey pleaded victim and asked a judge to toss the charges against him as “vindictive” and “selective,” he probably didn’t expect the government to produce his own emails and handwritten notes that tell a different story. Federal investigators say they recovered a trove of documents, including notes and emails from a locked safe and burn bags in an unused SCIF at FBI headquarters, material that directly contradicts many of Comey’s public claims. For hardworking Americans who watched the FBI weaponize investigations for years, these discoveries feel like the first real answer to the decades of double standards.
Comey’s lawyers have leaned hard on a September social-media post by President Trump and procedural arguments about the prosecutor’s appointment to argue the case is politically motivated, but the Justice Department has pushed back forcefully. DOJ filings say the prosecution is based on a duly constituted grand jury and probable cause, and that Comey hasn’t met the heavy legal burden required to show vindictive or selective prosecution. That legal reality doesn’t play well with the celebrity narrative Comey and his allies have been selling to sympathetic cable networks.
The documents the government unearthed aren’t small potatoes — prosecutors report emails showing Comey expected to be working for Hillary Clinton after the 2016 election and private communications about anonymous media contacts. Those revelations expose a level of intimacy with leakers and partisan expectations that are scandalous coming from a man who ran the nation’s top law enforcement agency. If the FBI is going to call itself apolitical, its leaders must be held to that standard, and evidence like this demands answers.
Conservatives have long warned the Deep State would circle the wagons and hide documents to protect insiders; finding boxes, burn bags, and a forgotten SCIF full of explosive material confirms those fears. It’s hypocritical in the extreme that Comey lectured the country on Hillary Clinton’s email server while reportedly using a personal, anonymous account to conduct FBI business. Accountability isn’t partisan — it’s the rule of law — and seeing these receipts pulled from the bureau’s own closets should provoke outrage across the political spectrum.
The press will try to spin this as a political persecution, but the simple fact is that indictments aren’t handed down on feelings; they’re the product of grand juries and evidence. Comey’s motion to dismiss highlights politics, but the new documentary material the government disclosed undercuts his story and strengthens the case that this is about broken oaths and potential false testimony, not a vendetta. If America means what it says about equal justice, this process must be allowed to play out without media-driven interference or sanctimonious protests from the very people who helped weaponize the system.
Patriots who love this country know that no one is above the law — not former FBI directors, not partisan bureaucrats, and not media-protected elites. If the DOJ actually uncovered the handwritten notes, emails, and Crossfire Hurricane materials reported, then the American people deserve a full, transparent accounting and a trial that tests these allegations in open court. The swamp’s instinct will always be to hide, deflect, and cry foul, but the only remedy for institutional rot is sunlight, the same kind of sunlight conservative voters demanded for years. Let the system work, and let justice be blind to rank and celebrity.
